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Jul 2018
/                        since the english language has
no diminutive concept:
confined within words -
    the adjective inside an adjective,
inside a noun...
      i'sa(h), would become e'sa(h) -
but that hovering diacritical
mark above the ι...
   is that like: trying to differentiate
ι, 1 from l (lower case)?
     yet it was implemented
    in a time of eloquent handwriting -
**** me, introducing second
tier "syllables": within words
(i.e. diacritical marks) to english?
a bit like introducing a goldfish
                   to the ocean...
                    or rather salt water...
imagine going to the coast,
bringing back some salt water -
and putting a goldfish in the bowl...
huh? dunno...
   but i know how my goldfish died...
apparently...
  a fish breathes, in water...
  and there's oxygen in the water...
and if you don't replace the water?
the fish ends up belly up, on the surface
of the water...
          i won her it him at a circus fest
anyway...
   i guess the only time i can become an e
if you play around with the already
given invitation - that "thing" hovering
above the ι (iota) -

   i = e ÷ ī

                        obelus -
   divided by = prolonged
                            sound rep. (-tation) -

english, as a language has no
   diminutive concept...
oh wait, it sort of does...
         esp. when Peter, becomes Pete -
which then becomes
the universal beginning: ma(h)ma(h)
and ends up being mother -
that subsequently becomes charlie (the) III's
very public mummy,
when lang lang played on her birthday.

- but there is a more overarching
diminutive concept...
      not to mention that english is...
too proud to allow loan-words,
   rarely...
           sometimes the bare minimum
of french, or the pillar of german...
other languages use plenty more
loan words... notably the borrowed
  weekend...
               since even the polacks know
this phrase:
   the poles do not speak their own
language - they borrow "their" language
from others...
       that said... even
                 english is partially original.
Mateuš Conrad
Written by
Mateuš Conrad  36/M/Essex (England)
(36/M/Essex (England))   
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